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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (20478)	2/7/2000 8:43:00 AM
From: George S. Montgomery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Dear Rinse: Sure. Sure. Sure. It would be ridiculous to set up a dialogue relating to the acceptibility of war. War is. I stsrted this bit with a comment on the Glorification, rather than the simple Empathetic Condemnation, or the Horror, of War and its Remnants. Glorification adds an acceptance, an admirability, to the evaluation. You must admit that. That is the ascpect I responded to - the sanctifying of the Elements of War. We must acknowledge contradictions. But need not glamorize all things just because they are. (Try Grace Kelly or Jimmy Stewart, way back when. Beauty, innocence, integrity, honesty, unspottedness. Move to their plumbing areas. Defecations, masturbations, menstruations, etc - quite out of step with the aura of the whole. Winston Churchill with diarrhea. A constipated Peter Jennings. We do not enshrine these physical unavoidabilities. Nor should we.) You refer Predation as being basic to the psyche - not the physical plant. OK. That confirms the main two points that I have urged, on and off, on these threads since I first entered. 1) We are, by no means, the Ultimate Species; and 2) We should, to one degree or another, admit to our own ignorance, our absence of omniscience. (War is. War is a horor. We cannot 'grasp' War by the nuts and squeeze the bejezzus out of it - because it is part of our psyches. So, humbleness is an imperative. And our Glorification of War is a matter of Shame.) So, there.